Boundary regularity of correspondences in ℂn

LetM, M′ be smooth, real analytic hypersurfaces of finite type in ℂⁿ and a holomorphic correspondence (not necessarily proper) that is defined on one side ofM, extends continuously up toM and mapsM to M′. It is shown that must extend acrossM as a locally proper holomorphic correspondence. This is a version for correspondences of the Diederich-Pinchuk extension result for CR maps.     

Poisson structures on complex flag manifolds associated with real forms

For a complex semisimple Lie group and a real form we define a Poisson structure on the variety of Borel subgroups of with the property that all -orbits in as well as all Bruhat cells (for a suitable choice of a Borel subgroup of ) are Poisson submanifolds. In particular, we show that every non-empty intersection of a -orbit and a Bruhat cell is a regular Poisson manifold, and we compute the dimension of its symplectic leaves.

     

New explicit solutions to the p-Laplace equation based on isoparametric foliations

In contrast to an infinite family of explicit examples of two-dimensional p-harmonic functions obtained by G. Aronsson in the late 80s, there is very little known about the higher-dimensional case. In this paper, we show how to use isoparametric polynomials to produce diverse examples of p-harmonic and biharmonic functions. Remarkably, for some distinguished values of p and the ambient dimension n this yields first examples of rational and algebraic p-harmonic functions. Moreover, we show that there are no p-harmonic polynomials of the isoparametric type. This supports a negative answer to a question proposed in 1980 by J. Lewis.     

The Log Minimal Model Program for Horospherical Varieties Via Moment Polytopes

In a previous work, we described the Minimal Model Program in the family of Q-Gorenstein projective horospherical varieties, by studying certain continuous changes of moment polytopes of polarized horospherical varieties. Here, we summarize the results of the previous work and we explain how to generalize them in order to describe the Log Minimal Model Program for pairs(X, Δ) when X is a projective horospherical variety.     

Log terminal singularities

The aim of this work is to simplify the definitions related to the study of singularities of normal varieties initiated in [3 de Fernex, T., Hacon, C. (2009). Singularities on normal varieties. Singularities on normal varieties 145, Fasc. 2:393–414. [Google Scholar]] and [8 Urbinati, S. (2012). Discrepancies of non-?-Gorenstein varieties. Michigan Math. J. 61(2):265–277.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. We introduce a notion of discrepancy for normal varieties, and we define log terminal⁺ singularities. We use finite generation to relate these new singularities with log terminal singularities (in the sense of [3 de Fernex, T., Hacon, C. (2009). Singularities on normal varieties. Singularities on normal varieties 145, Fasc. 2:393–414. [Google Scholar]]).     

A survey on Cox rings

We survey the construction of the Cox ring of an algebraic variety X and study the birational geometry of X when its Cox ring is finitely generated. Basic notation. Throughout this paper k is an algebraically closed field.     

Varieties without minimal generators

While many familiar varieties have a minimal varietal generator, i.e., a regular projective finitely presentable regular generator such that none of its retracts is a regular generator, and even a unique one, we present (a) a variety having no minimal varietal generator at all and (b) a variety having two non-isomorphic minimal varietal generators. Moreover we demonstrate that the same effects can happen with respect to a weaker notion of minimality and are common even in module categories. Received April 7, 1999; accepted in final form July 10, 2000.     

Real Quotient Singularities and Nonsingular Real Algebraic Curves in the Boundary of the Moduli Space

The quotient of a real analytic manifold by a properly discontinuous group action is, in general, only a semianalytic variety. We study the boundary of such a quotient, i.e., the set of points at which the quotient is not analytic. We apply the results to the moduli space M_g/ of nonsingular real algebraic curves of genus g (g2). This moduli space has a natural structure of a semianalytic variety. We determine the dimension of the boundary of any connected component of M_g/. It turns out that every connected component has a nonempty boundary. In particular, no connected component of M_g/ is real analytic. We conclude that M_g/ is not a real analytic variety.